Soul Eater primarily revolves around students known as Meisters (職人, shokunin) or technicians at the Shinigami Weapon Meister Vocational School (死神武器職人専門学校, Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō), or Shibusen (死武専, Shibusen) for short, located in Death City. The school is run by Shinigami, the God of Death, as a training facility for weapons created by shinigami and the human wielders of those weapons, the meisters.